COVID UPDATE: The number of patients at the hospital with the virus topped 800 today. Last week cases rose 17% including more than 5,100 new cases a day.
The seven-day average daily case rate has risen to 50 cases per 100,000 residents, while test positivity rose significantly to almost 14%. An average of seven deaths were reported each day last week.
Communities with high rates of poverty have the highest hospital admission rates, while the most affluent areas have the lowest. “Providers at both emergency rooms and urgent care centers have noted that this increased volume of COVID cases is coming at a time when they're also seeing unusually high numbers for the summer of patients with other respiratory illnesses, including flu and RSV, and when they're facing some staffing shortages associated with the high rates of COVID transmission which have led to more infections among health care workers,” Ferrer said.
L.A. County is currently in the CDC’s “medium” level of COVID-19 activity. It will move into the “high” category if the average daily rate of new positive hospital admissions rises above 10 per 100,000 residents, or if the percentage of staffed hospital beds occupied by patients with COVID-19 tops 10%.Both figures have been rising over the past several weeks, with the rate of new admissions reaching 8.1 per 100,000 residents as of Thursday.
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